J. D. McClatchy Quotes

No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day.

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• Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Up
  • You
  • Speak

• We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Music
  • Book
  • Silence

• I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Love
  • Song
  • Night

• Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Profit
  • Industries

• You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • You
  • Say
  • Spy

• I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Character
  • Really
  • Longer

• In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Life
  • Cool
  • Will

• I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Feeling
  • Doing
  • Hands

• We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • motivation
  • Act
  • Talk

• I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the work speaks to people, fantastic.

  

  Garth Davis
  • People
  • Work
  • Always

• I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Growing

• They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Long
  • Interesting
  • Thoughts

• Don't let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• I mean, I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Night
  • Quiet
  • Busy

• There's not enough black films out there. There's not enough Latin films, or films that have an Asian, Indian or Middle Eastern lead. The list goes on and on.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Black
  • Enough
  • Latin

• I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Rock
  • Dance
  • Answers

• I've watched and learnt from DJs and remixers and paid way more attention to how I want my voice to sound. Before, as long as it was loud and in tune it was fine. I've discovered the difference made by various microphones and effects, so each track has a different vocal sound, my voice is woven into everything and it's above everything.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Different
  • Long
  • Attention

• If we were to reengineer the DVR, we would cut America's energy bill by 5%.

  

  Rick Smolan
  • America
  • Energy
  • Would

• I guess I'm lucky to have been blindsided. I'm lucky to have gotten into fistfights, in a way. I'm lucky I learned how to stop them.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Stop

• I also remember defining myself by the people and the things that I hated rather than what I liked, thinking that it was cooler to be jaded than to be careful with other people.

  

  Hank Green
  • People
  • Things

• No family should have to endure the loss of a loved one at the hands of a previously convicted violent criminal.

  

  Niecy Nash
  • Should
  • Hands
  • Violent

• Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

  

  Joseph Joubert
  • Everyone
  • Indulge
  • Charitable

• No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day.

  

  J. D. McClatchy
  • Should
  • Floats